His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia has issued a fire appeal. Read the full text below:   My dear friends, With great sadness and heartache, we find ourselves in the midst of a fire crisis, which has unfolded in front of our eyes in recent days, here in our blessed Australia. We share the grief…

Archbishop Sotirios visited Calgary, Alberta as he has done for many years on the 31st of December. That evening, he was present at the New Year’s Eve celebration in the community hall. On the 1st of January, he celebrated the Divine Liturgy with Rev. Fr. D. Rougas and Rev. Fr. P. Rougas. Calgary is one…

The soul, being created rational and understandable by the life-giving breath of God, was not created at once with irrational anger and lust, but with the power of desire and, along with that, with the force of love. Neither was the body created, from the beginning, with irrational anger and lust. For man received those…

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The Divine Liturgy was also celebrated in the Greek sign language on Thursday by the Metropolis of Halkida, in south-central Greece, on the occasion of the Feast Day of Righteous Mark the Deaf. The Metropolis’ director of ministerial services, Archimandrite Ioannis Karamouzis, completed the theological translation of the Divine Liturgy in Greek sign language, the…

The Metropolis of Serres and Nigrita, in northern Greece, announced a total of 179 scholarships for college students on New Year’s Eve, with the total reaching 30,000 euros. The scholarships were announced by the Metropolitan Serres and Nigrita, His Eminence Theologos, who also blessed a traditional New Year’s cake at the diocese, in the presence…

Christian Orthodox faithful in the Republic of the Congo celebrated the advent of the new year during a midnight service at the Cathedral of St. Fotini, in the city of Pointe-Noire, with the Metropolitan of Brazzaville and Gabon, His Eminence Panteleimon, officiating.

A charity event featuring bell-ringing was held at the Cathedral of the Nativity in the city of Vrchni Uralye, in central Russia. Students of a bell-ringing school took part in the event, held before Christmas Eve, celebrated by the Russian Orthodox Church with the Julian calendar. The charitable event aims to provide support to large-member…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday officially welcomed and met with the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, with the highlight of the meeting being the announcement of a restart of construction of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan. This meeting was the…